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...Quakers (1-6) enter tonight's match-up as one of the league's preseason favorites, while the Crimson has been picked to retain its cellardwelling status of a year...
...University's announcement on October 3 included plans to sell $160 million worth of investments in 8 corporations including Exxon. The other seven--Royal Dutch Petroleum/Shell, the Chevron Corporation, Ford Motor Co., Texaco, Mobil Oil, Phelps Dodge, and Schlumberger, Inc.--retain links to South Africa. Harvard's endowment still includes approximately $367 million worth of stocks and bonds in companies with South African operations...
Unlike the best of the new buildings, the most intriguing new products and graphics retain a streak of playfulness. Ron Curtis' outdoor table, for example -- a piece of painted redwood fastened to a teak stake -- seems perfect for grownup Cheever children: charmingly zany and casually handy, equipment for a movable fete or a midsummer night's drink. The View-Master 3-D Viewer, a color-slide viewer intended for actual children, has been around for nearly 50 years. In honor of its longevity, the company commissioned Designers D.M. Gresham and Martin Thaler to produce a new version...
...convenient, say CIA insiders, to claim that former employees retain no affiliation with the Company. But on retirement all agents are asked to sign statements saying whether they will accept future assignments. They need not do so, but many find the pay as contract agents handy, and some yearn to recapture the excitement of secret work. If contract agents get in trouble, the CIA can deny any connection. But in fact free-lancers report to a "case officer," says one former CIA official, and thus "the agency knows everything. That's why it is very hard to believe Oliver North...
Cambridge recently decided to retain the contract of the its largest car towing company even though the owners face charges of fraud in an insurance scandal related to another company...